Perspective

 

The farmer toiled in the fields day after day, as had his father before him, and his father before him. The land was rocky and barren, the crops difficult to grow. Each season he managed to gain from the land barely enough food for his family. Each day was long and hard and grueling and he longed for the day when he could leave this life to move onto the days of gold and glory in the heaven that was promised by his father, and his father's father.

 

As one day blended into another a miner happened accross his land. Despite his exhaustion, the farmer invited him to share the little they had for dinner. As the evening passed the miner asked him why he toiled so at bringing crops from the surface of the land. The farmer explained that his family had always been farmers, that it was the only way there was to survive. The miner suggested a new perspective. Consider that the way things always were need not be the way things always are. Consider that there is a depth to everything and that what lies beneath the surface might be much more valuable than what is visible to the eye.

 

The miner went on to explain that the rocky land the farmer was tilling was laden with rich minerals, gold and gemstones, and all he need do is look beneath the surface and do things a bit differently to find the heaven he was seeking here on the earth.

 

The farmer changed his perspective and his life was filled with riches beyond belief.